I just got three e-commerce projects on my hand. Two of them is a no brainer in WIX. But the other two is advanced.
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I need to insert products from another system into the store on a daily basis.
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I need to be able to export orders to XML or JSON formatted files as soon as they are placed.
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I need to create several customer groups so when they login they will get the correct pricing calculated.
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Need of more pricing fields for the price we pay when we buy the product and what the minium price will be no matter what coupon or customer group is used.
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Online pricing calculation
This is tricky, lets say customer views product with SKU123 and then I want to be able to setup External Pricing Calculations and enter the URL to my calculator. Lets say the url is https://mysite.com/api/price/
When clients views product page for SKU123 it will post a request to https://mysite.com/api/price/SKU123 and present the returning price as the product price. This price will then be the price for this particular customer and be added to checkout.
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I have pretty much the same requirements for a couple of projects. We basically need Read/Write access to Wix Store Database and Event Handling.
All their developers are fixated on other cr*p and they don’t even realise how expensive their eCommerce service yet it lacks the most vital component! We are businesses that are losing both time and money and we get slammed back with “it’s on our roadmap” bullshit. Well don’t call it “creation without limits” because its so freakin limited despite being in beta testing - it literally does nothing we all know what a database is, when will they finally wake up this is a horror show.
Hey Dylan,
We’d love to hear the your thoughts in more detail. If you’re game I’ll send you an email with a link to schedule a call.
Hey Dylan
I have been a web developer since 1996 and I have hated Wix as a platform since 2012 until last summer when Wix Code got released. I feel Wix Code or Wix at large is like Volvo doing electric cars. The vision and ideas are awesome and the first version is awesome if you compare it with others in the same range.
Of course there is a lot of stuff missing but remember that Wix is a platform for small coders and hopefully a future platform where you can do much without coding at all.
If you want a system with 100% no limits you do it yourself, you code from line 0 until project done. I have done this over the years and it is cool, I get what I want but it takes so much time. With Wix I can do almost 65% now and within that I also save 50% of all my time.
If you see Wix in a couple of years from now you will be blown, if you don’t have the time to wait don’t, they do it all yourself or take on WooCommerce or Shopify as the platform. Or OpenCart, I did a OpenCart project now and it was awesome.
But take the time to look at where Wix where 2 years ago and compare that today and think 2 years ahead.
But thanks for sharing your thoughts with other developers like me, appreciate it.
Hey Yuval, hello@dylanrihan.co.uk. Looking forward to your reply.
Andreas, I totally get that. But it’s quite literally one step away from getting there and it’s exposing eCommerce as extensive APIs - that more than anything, will change the game completely and I can reassure you they could by then sit back, cut on marketing costs and their revenue will speak for itself.
Hi Andreas
Did you get an answer to your original questions?
I have a similar requirement where I want to write a c# application/service to sync product (and possibly other) data from an Accounting System to Wix to keep it up to date (e.g. new items, update pricing).
A REST API that exposes these functions would be very helpful.
I only know they work on the API, I have no idea when it will ship but I can guarantee you that when they are releasing it, they will tell you here.
Hi Andreas,
Did you get an answer? I need also to develop an application with c# .net and i need an api url to export orders and products to my database.